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Jackson County blotter

published Thursday, January 23, 2014

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office reported the following incidents:

ILLEGAL FIRE: On Jan. 18, Deputy Steven Thomas was dispatched to a report of an illegal fire near Maysville, where volunteer firefighters went to a home and told a man he had to put out a fire by dark. The man became irate and told the deputy he was only burning leaves and he put them out after the firefighters left his home.

The deputy noticed the fire was out, but advised the man to get a burn permit the next time from the forestry service. The deputy also noted that the windy conditions were not a good time to be burning. The man apologized for getting irate with the firefighters.

MAN ARRESTED: On Jan. 18, Deputy Steven Thomas and other deputies went at 2:30 a.m. to a home on Berea Road, Nicholson, where the officers located Kerry Tyrone Brock, 35, who was wanted on a burglary warrant. He was taken to jail.

CHICKEN THEFT SUSPECT: On Jan. 16, Deputy Rodger Boswell met with an investigator for Wayne Poultry Farms in Pendergrass, where the investigator explained he had been looking into the theft of chicken from the plant. The man identified a suspect, who had given a written confession to the theft.

The suspect was taking chicken out of boxes and placing it in a backpack, which he was able to take from the plant. Officials estimated the man stole $300 to $530 worth of chicken since early November. Martin Delgado-Elias, 49, of Gainesville, was charged with theft.

VEHICLE DAMAGED: On Jan. 16, a deputy was dispatched to a home in Jefferson where a 29-year-old woman said she had been arguing with her boyfriend, who is supposed to be moving out of her home. The woman said the man keeps saying he is moving out “tomorrow.” But she noted that tomorrow never comes. During the last argument, the man threatened to put sugar in her gas tank, but she knew he didn’t have any sugar.

Later that day, that woman reported she had found damage to her car, including marks on the exterior paint and damage to the grill. The woman said she is going to take out a restraining order.

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY: On Jan. 15, Deputy Joseph Chastain was dispatched to a home in Braselton, where a 54-year-old man was evicting his roommate after they had a fight a few days earlier when the roommate set fire to a trash can inside the home.

The man said he is suspicious of the man because he is spending a lot of money on packages that are shipped to him from California and he wanted a deputy to check the man’s room.

The officer explained he couldn’t search the room without the other man’s consent, but they could look in other areas of the house. The officer found a smoking pipe in the house and the complainant said he saw a plastic bottle in the man’s room that was labeled “Happy Hour Orange Crush.”

TRASH DISPUTE: On Jan. 15, a deputy was dispatched to a home in Pendergrass, where two men were arguing about trash. One man said the other threw trash from his camper into the front yard. The complainant said he took the trash and threw it in the man’s back yard.

This morning the other man got the trash and threw it back in the front yard. After the deputy arrived, the man picked up the trash and took it back into his camper.

UNSETTLED WIFE: On Jan. 15, Deputy Adan Ornelas was dispatched to a home in Commerce, where a woman reported that her fiance was receiving harassing telephone calls from his wife. The woman said she had already placed a block on Facebook because the wife keeps leaving messages. She explained her fiance is separated from the woman, who lives in Villa Rica.

The woman asked for extra patrols at her home.

FRAUD: On Jan. 9, Deputy Tommy Haynes met with 76-year-old woman who said she was victimized by her ex-pastor and his wife. The woman said she purchased a house in Auburn for the pastor and they defrauded her on a payment and provided false documents to a lending institution for a refinance. The house is now in foreclosure. The woman said there are other elderly members of the Madison County church that were defrauded by the couple.

The officer asked for more information on the case to determine if it is criminal or civil in nature.

LOAN DISPUTE: On Jan. 13, Deputy Charles Clark was dispatched to a home on Kings Bridge Road, where a woman said she borrowed $10 from another woman several days ago and she promised to pay it back as soon as she could.

However, the woman’s son sent her a text telling her to pay the money back now before he had to intervene on his mother’s behalf. The woman said she called the man and told him not to come to her home because she has a gun. The son replied he would take the gun and shove it up her rear end.

The deputy advised the woman to pay back the $10 and not respond to any more texts from the son.

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